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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  The right rate of AI misbehaviors at the level of social-engineering malicious packages into a public registry is zero.

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  Rarer is better, but I still think the right rate of misbehaviors on the level of social engineering to put malicious packages into a public registry is still zero.

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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  AI agents can spontaneously hack third-party websites even when given benign public-information tasks.

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  even when given a benign task to retrieve public information, your AI agents could still spontaneously decide to do so via hacking third party websites with malicious software packages.

  AI #186: The World Takes Noticethezvi.substack.com

Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Any software that depends on open source has a network of humans with package publishing rights who are potential attack vectors.

  open source

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  Any piece of software that depends on open source (which is almost every piece of software) has a network of human beings who are potential attack vectors - everyone with publishing rights to any of the packages in the dependency network for that software.

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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  RCTs have the disadvantage of requiring too many things to be held constant and can miss longer-term adjustment benefits.

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  RCTs somehow have the odd disadvantage of requiring too many things to be held constant, and so they can miss the benefits of longer-term adjustments.

  Does AI assistance enhance or erode expertise?marginalrevolution.com

Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.

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  Eliminating paper-writing as a student assignment would remove a core skill needed for most professions requiring a graduate degree.

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  I am extremely concerned that this trend will eliminate paper-writing as an assignment, and that is a core function of most professions requiring a graduate degree.

  The Professor and the Plutocrat and AIdanieldrezner.substack.com

Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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  Requiring two parallel agent instruction files in a monorepo is a complexity tax that leaves some developers working with a lobotomised agent.

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  With thousands of developed in a mono repo, it just does happen that one directory is missing one of the two files and this means that a subset of devs work with lobotomy. We fix this with automation but it’s a stupid complexity tax that shouldn’t have to be paid.

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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

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  AI's rise is making human connection scarcer, requiring deliberate effort to find it.

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  With the rise of AI, human connection is becoming more elusive, which means we have to be proactive in seeking it out.

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Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

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  Laravel Idea

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  Since I mostly work on Laravel projects or packages, I usually enable the Laravel Idea plugin. It's a paid plugin, but it's definitely worth the money since it can provide stuff like auto-completions for route names, request fields and more.

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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  We are living through a cognitive Copernican revolution: human intelligence is not the centre, and which tasks we count as requiring intelligence has to be re-evaluated.

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  you know, right now we're going through uh an in um an cognitive version of the Copernican revolution where we used to think that human intelligence is the center of the universe. And now we're actually seeing that there's there's very different types of intelligence um that that that are out there uh with very different strengths and weaknesses.

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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  Requiring everyone at a company to reach for AI first is a fairness measure, because otherwise the people who already do will take all the best careers.

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  I I sent a memo to my company like and we set the expectation that we require that people reflexively reach for AI now and and we require it because it's unfair not to because the people who do otherwise going to be the people who sequester all the best careers to themselves, right?

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Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  Cut and cover is still often the cheapest way to build a subway and rich countries have abandoned it anyway, because the disruption is no longer tolerated.

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  Cut and cover will sometimes be the best choice from a basic cost-benefit perspective, as will elevated rail, and both are useful to have in the tunnel construction toolbox for that reason.

  Why we stopped building subways cheaplyworksinprogress.news

Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.

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  A full-time job is not the best way to monetise a skill; it is one package among several, and defaulting to it is a faulty plan.

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  And my contrarian opinion is that full-time jobs are not the best way to monetize the skill that you have. It's one of the packages that everybody should evaluate and take advantage of, but too many people blindly default to that package

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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  LLMs will push software development toward more specialized code, fewer generalized packages, and more readable tests.

  LLMs

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  So I foresee a world with far more specialized code, with fewer generalized packages, and more readable tests.

  How I program with LLMscrawshaw.io

Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.

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  A good life rests on things that demand skill and effort from you, not on goods that arrive requiring none.

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  A good life is supported by a diverse array of focal things and practices, which tend to reward us with deeper, more meaningful experiences; a gratifying measure of bodily skill and competence; and possibly even a stronger fabric of relationships.

  The Stuff of (a Well-Lived) Lifetheconvivialsociety.substack.com

Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.

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  Graphical interfaces have superior usability because they show people what can be done rather than requiring them to articulate what they want.

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  GUIs have superior usability because they show people what can be done rather than requiring them to articulate what they want.

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Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.

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  Building a secure, performant GraphQL API is tricky and adds real cost during early-stage app prototyping.

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  While we love GraphQL for many use cases, implementing a secure and performant GraphQL API can be tricky and there is a definite cost to requiring it during early prototyping of your app.

  tom.preston-werner.com

Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

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  Adding a dependency is a serious commitment requiring an audit and continued re-auditing, and the usual practice of not doing so is reckless.

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  Adding a dependency is a serious decision which requires consensus within the team, an audit of the new dependency, an understanding of its health and long-term prospects, and an ongoing commitment to re-audit them and be prepared to change course as necessary.

  I will pay you cash to delete your npm moduledrewdevault.com

Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.

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  A language is a set of skills to be built, not a body of facts to be known.

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  This is an important detail that often gets overlooked, because language learning is, first and foremost, about acquiring skills. About learning how to read, write, speak, and listen, along with all of the countless subskills that any competent language speaker has in his or her toolbox.

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Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

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  ZoomIt

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  How do you draw on the screen when you're sharing your screen? ZoomIt has been THAT TOOL in my toolbox.

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Cognitive scientist and designer; author of The Design of Everyday Things; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group; former vice president at Apple; founding director of the Design Lab at UC San Diego.

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  Machines should do the parts of a task that people are bad at, so that people and technology work as partners on human terms.

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  Instead of having people do the parts of a task that machines are bad at, let’s reverse the process and have machines do the parts that people are bad at. Instead of requiring people to work on technology’s terms, require the machines to work on human terms.

  People-Centered (Not Tech-Driven) Designjnd.org